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tHelpDess auu Wear Death airiieir lo&ay Wait by TJllotBier's Body P1 POUNDBD 1631 . 100th YEAH; U PAGES The Oregon StcrfMmn, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday. November 21, T1950 PRICE 5c Ho. 240 GI .Mane - i Bore at itiria P (fTTTTn -S"S ---: C.-l. .-- ' VTi --... I J"' "" :':':IPy"T"lW""' H'JUl A'lJ.'.Hfc! HL,f !! :.-pM i : I . . ,.r Tills was the scene of death sod starvation which erected City policemen Monday nlrht when called to the home of Mrs. Melissa Shattnck, 1337 N. Winter U The top photo shows the bed on which Walton Shattnck, 42, was found near death of malnutrition and exposure. At lower left is pictured the stove on which decayed food, some of it apparen tly consumed by Shattnck, was found. At lower riht la the closet trunk in whicJi pouce 4 The Portland Oregonian one day lice of Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk, showing a bucket catching the drip from rainwater leaking through trie root, xjus was not pea or trick shot. The roof of the old buildinsf is noted for its sieve-like character, and repeated efforts at The delect is typical or tne structure which has become quite obsolete for the housing of the state supreme court, a coordinate division of state government: It is wrongly placed to begin with, the heavy volume of rail traffic on 12th street and of vehicular traf fic on Twelfth - and State streets mnst riisturbin. Conferences just adjourn while heavy trains rumble by. An architectural survey was made for the alteration and reno vation of the building. The estim ated cost in 1949 was $147,499.r I hope that the legislature will not appropriate money for this work hut instead will authorize con struction of a new supreme court building. Eventually a new build .ing will be required; then the pres ent building could be converted for other uses. To spend at least 1150.000 for rather temporary re- construction would be largely money thrown away because later the building would neea to oe re modeled for use as a general office building.: ' As the work- of the court grows, more employes will be needed, such as law clerks. If the court lor (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH k"Nw. f4 ftW tKU fettip HI W fflT S013DS TOCDDCS - ' " " -- - jqG turn. tuiBTwnniiTCyi i xeana more th an J750 In cash. 750 Cash Found Iti Littered House By Thomas G. Wricht Staff Writer, Th Statesman A 79-year-old mother was found dead and her 42-year-old mentally-ill son near death of malnutrition -and exposure Mon day night in their unheated two story home at 1337 N. Winter st. where later several hundred dol lars were discovered cached in a closet. ' Deputy Coroner " Charles Ed wards said he estimated that the woman, Mrs. Melissa Shattuck, had been dead about 10 days. Her son, Walton M. Shattuck, was taken to Salem General hos pital where his condition remain ed "extremely critical" early this morning. The tragic situation was dis covered by a neighbor who had become suspicious at not seeing any activity around the house for several days. C D. Hawley, who resides at 1305 N. Winter st, adjacent to the Shattuck home, said he be came worried about the pair af , ter he had not noticed the woman about for several days and had not seen lights in the house. Mon day night shortly after 7 pjn. he decided to investigate and after getting no answer to his knock, checked the mail box. He said a card in the box, postmarked over a week ago, raised his sus picions so he entered the house by a rear door. Found Woman Dead Hawley told police he found the woman dead in her bed and the man half -on, half -off another bed in a comatose condition. Hawley returned to his house, which he rented from Mrs. Shat tuck, and called police. First Aid Captain Charles Charlton who checked Shattuck. when he arrived at the house minutes later, said the man prob Governor Refuses to Proclaim Bird "Week DENVER, Nov. 20-(l)-Acting Gov. Charles P. Murphy refused today to yield to entreaties of bird lovers that he proclaim this nation al bird week in Colorado. The - republican rancher said, "after all, this : is Thanksgiving week, when a lot of Turkeys will be killed, and pheasant season opens Sunday. I don't think we ought to discriminate against tur keys and pheasants during bird week." .: Max. SS 58 - 7 ' Min. Fred p. 11 .1 41 t J 60 Jl Salem Portland . San Francisco Chicago . 35 ' SI .02 60 J4 New York 62 Willamette River 16 J feet ro RECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy with few shower today, in creasing' cloudiness with rain late to night. High today near 55; low tonight near 40. if nf ornT, a r Mart . weather year aeoC 1 ; - ably would have been dead in a half -hour had he not been found Shattuck was taken to Salem General hospital by first aid am bulance. Evidence indicated that the son had eaten of decayed food, ap parently cooked by bis mother before her death. Bits of food were found in several rooms of the house and in the bed where Shattuck had been discovered. Bills, Coins Found, Police with Assistant County Coroner Charles Edward check ed the cluttered downstairs rooms of the old house and discovered bills and coins in a closet trunk. Police estimated the sum at over $750. Bank books found in the trunk, indicated that accounts had been closed for several years, Walton Shattuck had been a patient at Oregon state hospital for many years, but after his father died his mother secured his release and cared for him in her home, relatives said. The Shattucks had occupied the North Winter street home for many years, neighbors reported. Up until a few months ago, rooms and apartments had been rented on the upstairs floor. Neighbors said they had last seen Mrs. Shattuck about ten days ago at which time she appeared in good health. Mrs. Robert Shattuck, wife of another son, said they had visited there about two weeks ago but had not been in contact since. Surviving Mrs. Shattuck are other son, Benjamin Shattuck. Salem; daughters, Mrs. Tillie , Overfield. Salem, Mrs. Ruth Overfield, Silverton, and Mrs, Joyce Sprankle, Gerng, Nebr. Funeral arrangements will be announced later from the How ell-Edwards chapel. Corvallis Woman Pleads Innocent To Murder Charge CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 20-CP) -Mrs. Sigrud Hansen, 53, pleaded innocent today when arraigned before Circuit Judge Fred Mc Henry on indictment on a charge of first degree murder in the death of her husband. . The husband was found bat tered and dying in an apartment house garage Sept, 10. Mrs. Han sen was arrested in Eugene Sat urday after a secret indictment by the Benton county grand jury, Judge McHenry set a tentative date of December 12 for her trial. Because of her health, she 'Will be confined, at the Multnomah county jail quarters for women until the trial. She had been or dered to a Corvallis hospital Sat urday night by a physician who explained Mrs. Hansen long had suffered from high blood pres sure. Chinese Soldiers Fear U.S. TOKYO. Nov. 20-JPhThe shock of allied firepower has demoral ized Chinese communist morale, in Korea, General MacArthur's head quarters said today. The word comes from Chinese communist prisoners, who also deny they came to Korea as vol unteers, headquarters reported. Red China insists only Chinese "volunteers' are fighting in Korea, An intelligence spokesman said these statements were gained from interrogating approximately ISO prisoners from one division of the Chinese communist 38th army. The captives said the army's morale had been high before it was hit by the allied sledgehammer in northwest Korea November 5. Chinese soldiers had not expected anything like this blow, the spokesman said. In their wars with the Chinese nationalists, the officer observed, the Chinese reds could not have felt the firepower force of "a mod ern army." Low Strafing New Strafing attacks and fire bombs. the prisoners said, were parti cularly demoralizing. They said they had been strafed before, in the Chinese civil war, "but never from a low as 50 feet. Not only did they deny volun teering, the spokesman reported, but they said they did not know any Chinese who . did volunteer. They seemed a little surprised by the entire question of "volunteers. The prisoners said no units in their division of the 38th army were integrated with North Ko rean troops. This belied another claim , of the Peiping radio that Chinese and North Koreans were fighting shoulder to shoulder. Mutual Dislike Actually, the prisoners added. there was very little contact with the North Koreans and even, this much was marked by mutual dis like and suspicion. The 38th army got no help from North Koreans in maintaining sup ply lines from the Manchurian side of the Yalu river. Supplies, the prisoners said, were an unexpected problem. They had never encount ered complete superiority in the air and the consequent harras- ment of convoys. Food was always short. Early In October Dates of movements of the 38th army, the spokesman said, show that Communist China began pre paring to put Chinese troops into the fight during the first weeks of October. The army, comprised of three divisions of 9,000 or 10,000 men each and some special units, orig inated at Changchun, capital of Manchuria. It probably entrained for Mukden about October 10. In Mukden the troops got win ter clothing and some queer in structions. The gear indicated they would be in the field for several months, at least. Among the in structions were orders to destroy all letters or papers identifying them as communist army regulars. They were forbidden to frater nize or talk with Koreans in Man churia, and were told not to speak Chinese in the presence of Korean civilians. The American spokes man said he did not believe they knew any language except Chin ese, but they got such orders any way. WINS CAR BREAKS ANKLE DENVER, Nov. 20-UPhSgt. N. D. Sanford of Lowry air base was told he had just won an auto mobile. Letting out a whoop, he dashed from the telephone booth to tell his buddies. Sanford forgot the booth is on a platform. He called for the car today with a cast on his broken ankle. State Interim Tax Board Cigaret Tax to Pay for More economy in state govern ment and use of a cigaret tax for financing the veterans' bonus were recommended for consideration of the 1951 legislature by the legis lative interim committee on tax ation at a meeting Monday in Salem. This was the last meeting of the committee before drafting its re port, r Rep. Giles French of Moro pre viously had suggested a surtax on incomes, tentatively at the rate of 15 per cent, which, he said, would raise approximately $4,500,000 a year. No action was taken on this suggestion. . It was estimated that a three cent per package cigaret tax would produce $5,000,000 a year. A pre vious cigaret tax law ln Oregon was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court and many payments tinder the act had to be refunded by the state tax commis sion. There was little opposition to a Plan for Lancaster Bypass EaOirte Abandoned; Meiv foad Surveye A new truck by-pass highway east of Salem, which would dis card Lancaster drive as route choice, is under survey by state highway crews. ' The new route, survey for which is about half completed, is still in the long range planning stage, according to W. C Wil liams, assistant state highway engineer. It is included Ln the greater traffic plan for Salem," and plans for its completion are "very tentative." Striking out southeast from the Pacific highway at Hayesville school (just north of Salem) the proposed route would lie about one-quarter mile west of Lan caster drive. It will pass just west Central Reno Floods as River Tops Sandbags RENO. Nev.. Nov. 21-JP) - A sudden surge of the Truckee riv er sent millions of gallons of wa ter pouring over hastily erected sandbag walls into downtown Reno this morning. The river thad been building to a climax all day but its sudden rise about 10:30 p. m. forced many theater and night club patrons to wade through water as deep as three feet at places. First street, one of the main thoroughfares, was turned into a torrent. Women in high heeled shoes and men in dress suits were unable to leave the swank Mapes hotel at First and Virginia streets without wading in . ankle deep water. . Across the river to the south, water was seeping into the plush Riverside hotel, gambling casino and bar. Patrons remained at the tables and Proprietor Mert Wert- heimer jokingly said he would provide bipboots if necessary. Men, women and in some cases even children worked rapidly to protect other business establish ments. So quickly had the river risen that few had a chance to prepare in advance. An unidentified man dropped dead as he worked to save stock in the basement of a department store. Automobiles were stranded throughout the flood section, many with their lights on and a few with motors still running. At First and Lake streets the muddy water poured in one front door of a flashy Cadillac and out the other. Emergency crews worked at log jams threatening to destroy several of the eight bridges which cross the river inside the city mi ii- 1 umiis. Morse Brings Oregon Chickens to Washington WASHINGTON, D. , Nov. 20 -Pr-Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore) brought his own Oregon fryers to Washington when he returned for the short session of congress. Instead of his show horse, which he usually brings east with him, the senator loaded his trail er with 21 frying size chickens. He put them on a friend's farm near here, and will kill them as his family hungers for them. SHIGEMTTSU RELEASED TOKYO, Tuesday, Nov. 2l-(!Ph Mamoru Shigemitsu. Japan's war time foreign minister, was released from Sugamo prison today. He was parolled from a seven-year sen tence as a war criminal despite a Russian protest, motion by Sen. Eugene Marsh, Mc Minnville, that no state property tax should be levied until all other sources of revenue were exhausted. Any mandatory provision was el iminated and all revenues would go into the state general, fund. French had suggested that the question of repealing the state property tax be referred to the voters through constitutional amendment. French stressed that many large state-wide organizations in Ore gon had expressed themselves in favor of repealing the state pro perty levy which has not been imposed for 10 years. Deputy State Treasurer Fred Paulus told the committee it would be dangerous to repeal the state property tax law, without certain restrictions, for the reason that such action would Impair certain state obligation bonds and the Ore gon bond market. At a previous meeting the com mittee voted to recommend repeal of State street Four Corners. From there, in a wide arc it will go al most southwest and connect with the Pacific highway about five miles south of Salem. Near Fa or Corners . At its northern terminus it passes along just eat of Hollywood avenue land west of Fisher road. It crosses State street about one quarter mile west of Four Corners and then swings a bit easterly to lie west of the Salem-Aumsville highway south of Four Corners and just east of Paradise Islands farm, j The route then swings south and - west again east of Hillcrest school for girls, crosses Boone road about one-half mile east of Pringle ! school and connects with the Pacific highway near its in tersection with Reese road south of Salem. No Established Route ' The 200 - foot right-of-way would not be located on any es tablished route and will skirt east of McNary field. When the sur vey is Completed, says Williams, the next job would be to purchase property along the right-of-way. He indicated this might begin soon, j Lancaster drive has been elim inated as the main by-pass route because; said Williams, "it is a county road of restricted width and because of its many business houses the expense of widening it wou-4 be terrific.' "Many routes were studied In that area before a survey was ordered-! The new route would pass largely through open fields and its estimated 94,000,000 cost is far below the expense of bring ing Lancaster drive up to the standards of an inter-state high way. Free-Way Highway The new route when completed would, 1 according to prescribed plans, be a four-lane free-way highway. Cloverleaf grade separ- Hospital Burns In Zero Cold JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 20-(ff)-Scores of patients were evacuated safely today when fire destroyed the Alaska Native Service hospi tal at Bethel, ln the Yukon val ley, in zero weather. None of the patients was in jured bet one hospital employe was hurt during removal of the invalids.: Hugh iWade, area director for the Alaska native service, said a report received here from Dr. Duncan Chalmers, head of the hospital,! said the $300,000 build ing was a total loss. Dr. Chalmers asked for immedi ate aid la providing suitable quar ters fori 27 patients deemed in need of immediate hospitaliza tion, j Wade said he had no Idea how many patients had been in the structure but knew that everyone of the institutions 70 beds were filled as lit was "the busiest hos pital in the interior.' Bethel, is approximately 1,000 airline miles northwest of Juneau and 600 miles southwest of Fair banks. It is the center of a large ly native area which recently has been the scene of a severe typhoid fever epidemic. Wade isaid that so far as he knew none of the patients in seri ous need of care was a typhoid victim as the epidemic had been brought t under control several weeks ago. Earlier, reports had said the hospital was filled to overflowing with 300 typhoid vic tims, j - Vets' Bonus of the state property tax law al most in Its entirety. Also referred to the legislature was consideration of elimination of exemptions to the personal propertyj tax and change in the method of collections so that all kinds of property -would pay. A business tax was discussed in lieu of the personal property exemp tions. t The committee report also will recommend legislative considers tion of a proposal to repeal pro perty offset provisions ox the cor poration excise tax law. .- Another recommendation pro vided for a fixed' assessment base on which counties must levy for public welfare. Any increase would be restricted to 0 per cent a year, The ledslature also will be ask' ed to study a proposal providing that when measures creating new expense iare presented, provision must be suggested for. raising the required additional funds. Yukon Valley Suggests d ations would be at crossings of Garden road (Market street) and Center street. Overhead crossings would be built at intersections with other roads such as State and D streets and Silverton road. Just over 10 miles in length. the proposed route is expected to handle 20 to 25 per cent of traffic which now goes through Salem. Highway engineers say this will provide adequately for the heavy truck traffic and will alleviate congestion on Capitol street now the main north - south route through Salem. Estimates on right-of-way costs have been placed at about $450,- 000. Survey work has been under way for about two months. Rear Portion Of Rainbow Inn Collapses A wall, apparently weaken ed by construction work adjac cent to it, collapsed early Tues day morning tumbling tons ef brick and mortar into the rear half ef the Rainbow Inn, 163 S. Commercial st, John Buechler, Janitor for the tavern, was the only person in the bunding where only min utes before several people had been eating and. drinking. He was unhurt. , The wall collaps ed at about 12:30 a. hl, half hour after the inn closed for the nlrht. Concussion, caused when a huge section of the roof dropped, com pletely shattered one of the plate glass windows at the front of the tavern. , - Wrecking of buildings adjacent to tRe one where the tavern is lo cated to make way for a parking garage apparently contributed to the weakening of the walL A sec tion approximately 30 feet long on tne soutn siae ox the structure col lapsed inward on kitchen and sto rage facilities and filling much of the tavern with debris arid dust. Firemen were called when at first it was feared an explosion had caused the wreckage of the building. Ferry Found- In Hop Yard Near St. Paul Claude Smith of St Paul wlshea that whoever owns that i&n ferry would come and take It out ox ms nop yard. The craft, which rancher Smith says floated Into his yards from the Willamette river with the high water about two weeks ago, is a real, big-sized auto ferry. It's sona oia, inougn. . "It's still floating around out there in one of mv low fields." said Smith Monday night. "I'd luce to get n of it," He wrote a letter to the Marion count court asking the court if it claimed the ferry. "- ' Marion County Judge Grant Murphy said that all of this coun ty's ferries are accounted for. He said the court didn't know who or what owned the stray ferry. Withdrawal of os in Korea Asked SEOUL, Nov. 20-(ff)-The com mander of 1,200 Philippine troops who . volunteered for duty in the Korean war protested officially to day that his men were not being used as r single fighting unit and asked that they be withdrawn, r Colonel Mariano Azurin. com mander of the Philippine army's 10th combat battalion, also com plained that his men were not supplied with winter gear, and that the Korean winter was too cold for the fighters from the trop ical Philippines.' Azurin, a graduate of the U3. armored combat school at Fort Knox, Kyn directed his protest to the Philippine government through the UJS. Eighth army and General MacArthur's United Nations com mand in Tokyo. Eighth army sources indicated any - decision finally would be made by Utf. command head quarters since the question was an mternauonal one. - SEOUL, NOV. 2H3VTh com mander of 1200 Filipino troops who protested against the manner in which his force wag being rosed in the Korean war, has been re lieved . of his command, reliable sources reported today. He has been ordered to return to X-UL-U-a nai r mpm JL. Red Units In East Isolated - SEOUL, Tuesday, Nov. 21-V fc American forces pushed all the way to the Manchurian border to day in northeast sKorea where all communist resistance was report ed disintegrating. Acclaiming; this success, fha Tenth corps commander said the enemy in east and west Korea is divided now, with all "significant forces in the east isolated. That ie' the area closest to the Soviet Si berian frontier.- I But 'the Chinese and Korean , communists gave multiple signs of i . intent to put up a big fight in northwest Korea. : Red truck convoys streamed down from the direction of the Yalu river, boundary between Korea and Manchuria. They mov ed toward troops fortifying a mountain defense line. - I . The reds appeared determined to bar United Nations troops in the northwest from - pushing - toward the Yalu's big Suiho reservoir. It feeds power to the industries el Chinese communist Manchuria. The arrival at the Manchurian . TrvtrHor in nnrtheact TCrn-pa n achieved -tiMr HTMSniin. SO t miles inland from the east coast. The 17th regimental combat team of the U. S. Seventh division reached the Yalu at 9:45 a. m. - (4:45 p. ire, Monday PST), Opposition Negligible ' Enemy opposition had been vir- . tually negligible since Sunday." The Americans had more trouble with the elements, driving along snow-covered mountain roads into'' the teeth of wintry winds. They covered the last two miles this morning, bringing tanks and ar tillery with them. - . The combat team's commander. CoL Herbert B. Powell, told AP. Correspondent Tom . Stone no at-' tempt will be made to fire artil lery shells across the Yalu river into Manchuria unless the reds there "fire at us first" Ma j. Gen. Edward M. Almond, whose 10th corps includes th Seventh division, said the com Die-' ted push has "divided enemy held territory and isolated all signiff- . cant forces east of 127 degrees, east longitude." . Split Penh-tula The north-south 127th meridian splits the Korean peninsula, run- . ning through eoui. Tenth corps forces also were enveloping two reservoirs south- west of Hyesanjin. Others were driving up the east coast toward the borders of Manchuria and So viet Siberia. The South Korean capital divi- . sion, gathering momentum on the east coast drive, was reported . within 25 air miles of the port at fk n. (! i j . vuvujui, vi mi uuuu am 60 air mile beyond ChonEin. American planes and guns of th U. S. heavy cruiser St Paul and Destroyer English helped reduce the opposition.. f U. S. marines made no report ef opposition today as they moved up the east and west shores of the Chanel in reservoir. Area Liberated General Almond said his Tenth corps has liberated 23,000 square miles of territory from the reds in less than a month. The advance elements of Mat Gen. David G. Barrs Seventh di vision at the Manchurian border, had to be air-dropped supplies in the last stages of their push. But' big convoys of men and supplies were moving up to bulwark that position. S? But It was a different outlook at least for the moment in north- west Korea. United Nations troops were no closer than 50 miles to tba Yalu river boundary. And there were ample signs of trouble ahead, A first corps spokesman said "A considerable amount of communist , vemcuiar trainer nas been spotted by arial observers moving south ward from the Yalu river. Bringing Supplies . , These convoys were believed bringing reinforcements and sup plies ior a communist defense line running east from Taechon. The uino power project, one of the -largest in all Asia, Is 45 air muee northwest of Taechon. ' Spotter planes for the U. S. 24th division artillery saw an estima ted 700 communists digging de fonc Twcittona five miles sou-h- east of Taechon. . . -. Another, major red force waa . observed digging: positions on high ground about five miles northeast of Yongbyon. That Is 16 miles east and slightly south of Taechon. In that vicinity, a U. S. First cavalry division element was driv- en back by an estimated 400 reds. Artillery planes reported a con siderably larger conmunist force was nearby. Two air strikes were delivered against these red late Monday,. . - v- - . . . I MATTHTEWS IS KOKEA . ' SAN FRANCISCO, &OT. 20-tg -Secretary of the Navy iTancis I Matthews flew from Japanto K04 rem y -steru- ior am ------ naval forces off Wonsan, the navy , annoimred. - - . ' ' v
